Regulating Urban Politics in a Global Economy

Urban regime theory has gained a dominant position in the literature on local politics in the United States and its use in comparative cross-national research despite its cited shortcomings. In Reconstructing Urban Regime Theory, editor Mickey Lauria presents a challenging argument for the need to reconceptualize urban regime's middle-level abstraction by interpreting it through the lens of the higher-level abstraction of regulationist theory. The noted contributors to this volume propose stronger conceptual linkages between local agents and institutions, regime transformation, and the restructuring of urban space.
The blend of empirical and case-study chapters provide an excellent mix of theory and practice that makes Reconstructing Urban Regime Theory well suited to a broad spectrum of upper-level undergraduate courses covering urban studies, political science, sociology, and geography as well as a rich resource for academics and researchers in these fields.

Mickey Lauria

Introduction

Reconstructing Urban Regime Theory

PART ONE: CONCEPTUALIZING THE REGULATION OF URBAN REGIMES

Mark Goodwin and Joe Painter

Concrete Research, Urban Regimes, and Regulation Theory

Marshall M A Feldman

Spatial Structures of Regulation and Urban Regimes

Bob Jessop

A Neo-Gramscian Approach to the Regulation of Urban Regimes

Accumulation Strategies, Hegemonic Projects, and Governance

PART TWO: RECONSTRUCTING URBAN REGIME ABSTRACTIONS

Christopher Leo

City Politics in an Era of Globalization

Kevin R Cox

Governance, Urban Regime Analysis, and the Politics of Local Economic Development

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